Sunday Sermon 16.
I was indeed a prodigy of Early Impiety.... There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as there was a time when I believed there was a Devil.... Suddenly the broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie.... I sensed it was a silly story long before I dared to admit even to myself that it was a silly story. For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty.... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?
-- H. G. Wells
